White-cheeked Bullfinch
WHITE-CHEEKED BULLFINCH
Pyrrhula leucogenis
Family Fringillidae
endemic, uncommon
Bird # 267 - October 2010
This is an uncommon montane endemic. Our first view of this bird was a very quick view of one through the scope in 2010. This was the 5,000th bird of Phoebe Snetsinger, the famous bird watcher. We deeply regretted not taking a picture right away and deciding instead to try to move closer for a better shot! The bird flew away and we didn't get another opportunity to photography this bird until 2017!
Tonji's story: A birthday bird on Mt. Apo at 1800masl.
This photo of a White Cheeked Bullfinch is not my best bird photo. :)
But it is one of our bogey birds we have seen but have dodged our cameras all these years. In hindsight I could have taken a better photo if I did not look for Sylvia to show her the bird. But it was her birthday. 🤔😰😱😈😍 so I ran down to look for her and bring her up. Good thing I did find her, and she and Martin got to see them. I do hope to get better photos of this bird in the future. But I think I will always look back fondly on this photo and remind Sylvia of how I sprinted to her and sprinted back to help her see a bird. Haha.
Read MorePyrrhula leucogenis
Family Fringillidae
endemic, uncommon
Bird # 267 - October 2010
This is an uncommon montane endemic. Our first view of this bird was a very quick view of one through the scope in 2010. This was the 5,000th bird of Phoebe Snetsinger, the famous bird watcher. We deeply regretted not taking a picture right away and deciding instead to try to move closer for a better shot! The bird flew away and we didn't get another opportunity to photography this bird until 2017!
Tonji's story: A birthday bird on Mt. Apo at 1800masl.
This photo of a White Cheeked Bullfinch is not my best bird photo. :)
But it is one of our bogey birds we have seen but have dodged our cameras all these years. In hindsight I could have taken a better photo if I did not look for Sylvia to show her the bird. But it was her birthday. 🤔😰😱😈😍 so I ran down to look for her and bring her up. Good thing I did find her, and she and Martin got to see them. I do hope to get better photos of this bird in the future. But I think I will always look back fondly on this photo and remind Sylvia of how I sprinted to her and sprinted back to help her see a bird. Haha.
